Sydney Sweeney.Photo:NBC NEWS / SUNDAY TODAY WITH WILLIE GEIST
NBC NEWS / SUNDAY TODAY WITH WILLIE GEIST
Sydney Sweeney’s family was a little shocked when they first saw herEuphoriascenes.
In an upcoming interview forSunday Today, the 25-year-old actress — who stars as Cassie — revealed that her dad and grandfather weren’t properly “prepared” to see her on the gritty HBO show, whichoften features nudityand sexual content.
In fact, she said, the two of them actually “walked out” the first time they tried to watchEuphoria.
Sydney Sweeney on ‘Sunday Today’
“My mom visited me on set quite a few times, so she knew the story,” Sweeney said. “My dad didn’t. I didn’t prepare my dad at all. … So he decided he was going to watch it without telling me, with his parents.”
Sydney Sweeney, Willie Geist.NBC NEWS / SUNDAY TODAY WITH WILLIE GEIST
“She’s a big fan of mine,” Sweeney said of her grandmother. “I bring her all over the world to my different sets and I make her an extra.”
The actress went on todiscussEuphoria’s massive impactwith young audiences.
Sydney Sweeney Sunday Today
“There’s so much [about] Cassie that I loved, especially in the beginning,” she said of her character. “I always tend to drift towards characters who might read one way on a page, and I like to find the layers to that character. … Finding the layers and the emotional depth to who she is and why she is, how she acts and what she thinks.”
“She’s a beautiful, broken character,” Sweeney continued. “I love playing Cassie, especially last season because she was so crazy. As an actor, that’s just so much fun to kind of stretch your legs and play characters that go insane and do all these crazy choices.”
Sydney Sweeney.Eddy Chen/HBO
“I’m really looking forward to seeing what Cassie does [in] season 3,” she added.
Euphoriawas renewed for a third season in February 2022. However, new episodes aren’t expected until 2024 at the earliest. During an interview withExtra, Colman Domingo, who plays Rue’s NA sponsor Ali Mohammed, promised season 3 would be “worth the wait.”
“We shoot these episodes in like, a month each. It takes a while,” Domingo said. “It takes so long because there are a lot of frames. If you look at the show, there are a lot of tiny, tiny scenes. [Creator] Sam [Levinson] is very meticulous in such a gorgeous way.”
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Sydney Sweeney’sSunday Todayinterview with Willie Geist airs Sunday, June 4 on NBC News.
source: people.com
